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southeast of the capital tripoli once known as dump his main stronghold the forces loyal to the full mo colonel gadhafi managed to take control over the city and did manage actually to raise the green flag at one of the city's gates the green flag symbolizing khadafi the toughest ruling as far as the local officials have been reclusive least five national transitional council people have been killed we can say for sure what was the reason behind this violence in front of all the what we know that the same day the libyan justice minister announced that the international criminal court had allegedly agreed to let say for the song to duffy's son to be tried in levy and until even more although it hasn't been confirmed by the i.c.c. itself but analysts say that the violence and this announcement may be connected just hours later violence erupted in another part of the country in the eastern
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part in the town of been guns he was known as the rebel stronghold and later on we've been hearing about the ball and around people there on the capital they've said so several checkpoints around tripoli following the clashes reports is that but also we can see that the n.c.c. a warning that the country may fall into civil war with the situation very dangerous trying to calm down fatah says and trying to take control over the tensions and not to follow them to escalate further. which seems that only we. protest invent ghazi when people have been demonstrating against and to see if the m.d.c. can try and is trying to take control of the situation but unfortunately so far with little success. gulf nations of pulling their arab league observers from syria even though the mission has been extended for another month the saudi dominated gulf cooperation council also wants the un's most powerful group to put pressure now on damascus. to try to end the bloodshed syria's foreign minister accuses some
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arab states of joining the international conspiracy against the country and of a plate of interference in syria's internal affairs damascus insists it will continue to take all necessary steps to protect the country against chaos syria's already rejected an arab brokered peace plan calling for president assad to step down while the e.u. is impose more sanctions to further squeeze the regime for the sort of first priority reports of the syrian people who are bearing the brunt. trying to shine a light on what's happening in the country the observer mission looks set to continue now for another month but every day here is proving more and more of a challenge to the people. due to the european sanctions in syria to argue in syria we don't have any tourist we don't have any foreigners the e.u. has no one pays its eleventh consecutive round the sanctions this time putting a travel ban on people and businesses linked with the assad regime is we've been
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finding out the cascaded sanctions this woman syria's struggling economy actually they are going to see the syrian people in a way or another i mean if they have governmental sanctions to be imposed that their business with the syrian government not with the people but the power is completely out of this door in the center of damascus at the moment and this is one of the main criticisms aimed at the economic sanctions this that this simply affecting the research every day syrian people in fact most businesses in this area now depended upon these types of diesel generators that are needed because our cars have become a normal daily blow people's lives where the not everyone can afford to back up at home with his wife and children and then says when the power cuts out the family simply have to make a generator is very expensive it costs like. sixty thousand three hundred pounds
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as i know it's not cheap and it's not just families and small businesses that are being affected oil production has fallen dramatically after an exports embark a and the cost of raw materials here has risen as one official from the chamber of commerce tells us a plummeting currency and rising prices have pushed many businesses to take their trade and money elsewhere in the business of money don't put all the money in the business keep somebody maybe outside maybe. this is the. market because norm or cash money money for. entry to recent form halfway through our interview the lights go out. oh. yeah.
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i have. but your who. stops. are and one. of them will spike cools it's been political and economic pressure on the country that's been favored in attempting to resolve the play steps the arab league observed in mission has also made little headway safe then they say they were there simply to investigate and to reports there have been numerous calls for even more observers to be allowed into the country i think the real issue is that the syrians need to allow in a much much more neutral a much more wide ranging a much more forceful international observer mission if they've got nothing to hide if it's if they're genuinely not killing innocent people then one of the the the sanctions impact is heavily contested is this need doubt that they are putting pressure on an increasingly isolated government many people in the country it will say made an already desperate situation even worse. damascus
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syria. britain's also encouraging the arab league to press the u.n. security council into action on syria western states continued to accuse the regime of cracking down on peaceful demonstrators which he denies saying it's fighting insurgents funded from abroad political analyst sarah marusek says the opposition is becoming increasingly violent. of course there are certain parts of the opposition that should share in the responsibility for the there are a good amount of syrians who are dedicated to peaceful demonstrations who have been showing up on the streets and have been you know resisting calls to violence but then there are also many dangerous segments of the opposition who have used violence we see this as collation more and more especially over the last several months with a lot of weapons coming in through foreign borders to opposition that's becoming increasingly militarized and carrying out some very devastating attacks on syrian
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infrastructure syrian government institutions the police so really right now we're seeing i think many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create these very militant very dangerous armed groups that are determined to create war and peace and syria isco about to our top story on going trouble in libya seems to be reemerging we'll talk of going to freeze in london he's an investigative journalist from the socialist worker website hartman hi there thanks for being on the program glad we got you know on line gadhafi loyalists have retaken bani walid as we've been reporting earlier in the program tonight how much support is there still for the former regime could they take more time and will require is more trouble in terms where is this likely to go to do you think. well the thing the thing we have to remember about the gadhafi regime or any kind of
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regime there isn't simply about the people at the top there are people their supporters on the ground low level mid-level officials and so on and i think quite a few of them. would have been. thrown to the win after the fall after his death and now are regrouping and of course they represent a certain extent a section of the population that now wants to find its voice and. i think what happened but he really took everyone by surprise in a sense you can understand it because it's also sort of a regional sort of tribalism so you know that the people the n.p.c. forces when they marched into been really would have had to have faced the local population now it's local population seems to have thrown them out and this is sort of things to come for the n.c.c. . just very much because this is one aspect of the story and of course last week the center of the revolution itself benghazi saw a very violent quite violent demonstration about two thousand people who stormed
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the offices of the n.t. see smashed smashed up the computer equipment how to riot because there's extreme on happiness about what some people are describing as the hijacked revolution that is when the west intervened it also took control of the process and now people are saying well you know this is not what we wanted where is the route where are the reforms and so on so this is we quite a lot of unease and unhappiness in place in libya at the moment could this as well be some reaction to that report last week that we saw middle east human rights groups giving extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in libya they say by allied forces during last year's war this report. instead of following this report saying sort of following the u.n. mandate to protect civilians nato bomb schools and private homes is this reaction to that some kick back as well do you think. most definitely i mean. it's a truism that there's no such thing as a clean war and civil wars are the most brutal. and so you can imagine.
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nato but i don't need to imagine nato really pushed the envelope and they broke the resolution they were there to defend civilians that was the mandate and they were essentially became the rebel rebels air force and so they were attacking in the the you know almost total annihilation of. the attack on areas considered to be loyal to the old regime and so on and so i think there is. no question that there are many many people who died on the nato bombs if i can just say there was one incident very early on where. the rebels themselves were pleading with nato not to attack various bases around tripoli because they were full of political prisoners and many of those died as well so it was very messy very brutal and i think there's quite a lot of acts of revenge taking place as well and some additional people claiming the west got involved in the war to oust gadhafi and crucially get hold of the oil
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well if that's the case how legitimate is the m.t.c. anyway if it's been installed by the west. but. i don't see the strange thing for for me to say that this wasn't primarily about oil. they already have the good life it already concluded oil deals in two thousand and three when you know he came in from the cold. and so on this is i think much more significant than simply oil that this can be said in honesty which is there's an attempt there was an attempt by nato saw the opportunity to place themselves between two revolutions the egyptians or the tunisian and of course we have to remember on the eve of the anniversary of the beginning of the egyptian revolution the speed in which after the fall of mubarak the revolution spread across the arab world you know the. panic i think inside of inside of the west and globally to be honest with you about what was taking place inside the mideast he was an opportunity for them to hijack this revolution which they have managed to do but the thing about revolutions is they're not simply passive events there is a whole awakening of
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a population in the middle east also in libya and people saying well this is not what we have not rising from the victims themselves you know the victims the new victims the old supporters of the old regime saying well we talk about democracy where is our inclusion in this so you get the sense there is this fracturing the new electoral law is very. going to put it has made people very very unhappy it seems there's a reintroduction of tribalism and patronage networks and so on and so you know. the there is a lot of this quiet in every corner of libya at the moment some for we've got to leave it there thanks ever so much for your thoughts thanks for being on our takes on ourselves activist and investigative journalist joining us from london. iran's apparently found a way to stay in business despite a new e.u. oil embargo an asset freeze india is now reportedly agreeing to pay a running gold for its oil instead of u.s. dollars reports suggest iran's biggest customer china could follow suit pretty
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straight as a new delhi with more. india actually has already bought iranian oil using gold instead of u.s. dollars and this is extremely significant because every year india actually spends twelve billion u.s. dollars on iranian oil and now actually beijing is also saying that it might want to jump on board with new delhi and also look into some sort of agreement with iran to continue to get oil new delhi and beijing actually account for forty percent of the imports of iranian oil the e.u. only counts for twenty percent obviously we've been talking about all week about this oil embargo that the e.u. announced on monday that they're hoping to roll out and put into place by chalabi first and obviously if new delhi and beijing find a way to continue trading with iran using gold instead of u.s. dollars this would severely hurt what the european union and washington is trying to do russia has also said that it wants to continue trading with iran using
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domestic car and seize instead of u.s. dollars obviously the point of the e.u. oil embargo would be to bring iran back to the negotiations table over its nuclear program obviously iran has consistently maintained that this is a peaceful nuclear program the west believes that they are potentially developing nuclear weapons so in response to the was announcement on monday that it will place in oil embargo on iran and iran has said that it's going to shut the strait of hormuz which is actually where twenty to thirty percent of the world's oil supply shuttles through in the united states is that it will absolutely not allow that to happen even sort of alluding to the fact that it could potentially use military force to make sure that that strait stays open moscow has also said that think sions are obsolete form of sort of punishing a country and that it's actually going to be counterproductive and another interesting thing to note here is that if beijing and new delhi continue to trade with iran with gold it's actually going to increase the value of gold and decrease
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the value of the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency. let's talk a bit more closely about this deal between engine or random talk to neal part of tony's geopolitics fellow at the institution is an independent indian think tank joining us on the line from new york thanks for being on our team is particularly the u.s. working to forge closer ties of course with china within the other asian countries in the attempt to stabilize the region but iran is also a major player there it's got its own supporters what's behind washington's actions so i think the issue of iran's nuclear program is sort of the more more most recent point of divergence between the u.s. and iran but this also comes on top of years and decades of distrust and insecurity so going back all the way from the one nine hundred fifty three coup in which the u.s. and britain toppled the democratically elected. leader of iran. and
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then there are the one nine hundred seventy nine takeover of the u.s. embassy and various support by the u.s. and iran respectively of of groups that oppose one another whether it's the. origin the love by the u.s. or. iraq in. iran and north recently it's sort of the fact that iran is supplying to all sides by u.s. allies to the north south east and west. i think accounts for a lot of. this tension over the years despite all the friction we're seeing though of course the u.s. and iran do have some common interests as well they both want to stable afghanistan for example what is holding them but maybe a simplistic question of what sort of there but from finding a common language and ending this crisis certainly i think. the biggest issue is just decades of distrust it's taking it's taking a lot of it will take a lot of political capital to sort of break beyond that but at the same time there
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are vested interests on both sides and the you in iran there are certain elements of the regime that actually based their power. or on an anti americanism where is there certain lobbies from saudi in israel for example in the us who were a bit better warmer relationship between the u.s. and iran will actually come at their expense and so we're sort of left with a situation where neither side feels that it needs to compromise which which comes one side coming in at a big cost of the rest of the world but but what while all this pressure from the u.s. and europe israel recently said that although it things around continues to improve its nuclear capabilities it's not actually building nuclear weapons indeed the i.a.e.a. didn't present any proof that iran's nuclear program has a military so far so while there's pressure on iran certainly i think part of this has to do with that that same long term trust but a lot of it also has to do with certain domestic political. issues for example rerun has been one of the key foreign policy issues in the republican debates in
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the united states and as a result there's been a lot of pressure from these into this within the u.s. to sort of ramp up pressure. against iran and i think that's that's why we're seeing a lot of this action and talk over the last couple weeks when there are there's news about paying with golden state the u.s. dollars is going to go. around got around it pretty easily. so i mean for years now the u.s. has been trying to include other countries. in its attempts to isolate iran and then for a while it was actually working because of its. countries like the like india for example were unable to invest in iran because the companies that did would have been penalized by being shut out of american markets. and in fact there was a big project the iran pakistan india pipeline that was opposed by the united states and it's it's essentially been scuttled but at the exactly as you said
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certain countries like india turkey china and even russia are now looking for other creative ways. to engage with iran well insulated from punitive action by the united states and some of these actions as was discussed before paying in all growth dollars and also building new independent entities that don't even participate in western markets so that they would be insulated from any and all right near pudukkottai geopolitics fellow at the institute in new york thanks very much thank you so much now we're gauging the reaction to the e.u. will embark on a run on our web site as well we will know what you think about this big story log on to our team dot com to take part in our latest poll so far this is we've been telling you more than half of you think that china will buy all of iran's oil add a cheaper price quote of you telling us it's europe's economy that's going to suffer percent say the a bargain will make russia the number one oil supplier in the views of the minority
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view four percent tell us it will hamper iran's nuclear program go online you can argue all straight. next vigil has been held at moscow's dummy dead of international airport exactly a year now since the deadly bombing in the arrivals hall people laid flowers and lit candles for the victims of the tragedy were a suicide bomber blew himself up and killed thirty seven people as well investigators have identified the man then his twenty year old twenty year old from russia's republican he'd been trained by islamist terrorists in the north caucasus region seventeen militants linked to the attack were killed in a special operation last year four others were detained there about to be charged but one of the world's most wanted terrorist operative morrow from claims he must have one of the bombing is still at large saddam averse really. more news now if you want to develop the dot com stories there tonight you might be interested if you guidelines in the u.k. could see drug smugglers and deal is avoiding prisoners even if they're caught with
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heroin or cocaine with out of mind the largest solar array. a shit outburst in six years hits the earth threatening communication and power blackouts like this see the majority of it on wednesday next twenty four hours following that story carefully at r.t. dot com. more useful around the world now a wave of car bombings has killed fourteen and wounded more than seventy approach the iraqi capital blast happened mainly in areas of baghdad threatening to revive sectarian conflict in the country but violence has dipped in iraq for the past few years attacks are still common more than two hundred people have been killed in the month since the u.s. military withdrawal. egypt has to partially lifted decades long state of emergency from when the state a year after the start of the popular uprising that ousted president barack but the draconian laws will still be applied in cases of what's described as thuggery rights groups claim that will still be an extensive police powers remain allowing
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them to justify cracking down demonstrators. the i.m.f. international monetary fund's warned that the global economy is in grave danger from the eurozone spillover the region is headed for a mild recession it says this year which the i.m.f. says will cause a world financial slowdown and even emerging markets will not be immune in the meantime markets have been volatile because of worries that the deal with greece's private investors could fall through. turkey's prime ministers late into the french parliament for clearing up what it calls a discriminatory and racist bill that urges freedom of thought the law would see people get up to a year in prison for denying the mass killing of armenians by ottoman turks nearly a century ago media says one of the half million were killed in the massacre but turkey claims the numbers much less the bill still needs to be signed off by president sarkozy to become law. just little after twenty four minutes past eight moscow time coming up in a few minutes we take an in-depth look at the possible solutions to the ongoing
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strife in the arab world but we speak to russia's main envoy to africa they want to get off sports coming up in the next half hour or two but next let's get across the latest business with dmitri. welcome to business r.t. good to have your company the ruble hit a twenty twelve high against the dollar on tuesday number of factors are pushing it higher including stronger crude prices and shrinking liquidity in the banking sector economies that xander if your from b. to b. capital believes the effect is temporary and the currency will weaken later in the . so i think that it's a temporary phenomenon that's a first quarter effect and the will is helped by a stronger current account because of seasonally high experts and this is no imports and. liquidity so we expect there will to be strong in the first quarter and then to
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a great deal we can tell what they are at their second half of the year. staying with macroeconomics unemployment and russia fell at the end of last year the jobless rate dropped twenty basis points from november to reach six point one percent in the final month of the year according to a survey by bloomberg analysts that actually expected it increased the significant increase to six point six percent. investment in fixed capital like machinery and building six percent in russia last year speaking to the modernization commission president vet of a derivative the rise to the growing economy and support for investors however he said the level of investment was still not enough for a country with the potential of russia. almost two thirds of the gold miners expect the price of gold bullion to keep growing this year according to a survey by price waterhouse coopers majority of them forecasts the peak of two thousand dollars. one of the reasons given is the new financial instruments that
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provide exposure to the gold price currently gold is trading at around sixteen hundred sixty four dollars per ounce. prior it's moved to stocks now in the u.s. a day of light and mix of the same time as investors worry that the greece debt deal may prove or same reasons for the caution we're seeing in europe greece's private creditors are continue to negotiate over the terms of a hoped for that's what deal in london the footies down point seven percent the dax are pretty much by the same amount. banks are the biggest loser is always going to lose in london thomas banks one of the biggest losers in frankfurt siemens is also down after forcing a drop in after school first quarter. physicalism picture in a rush. down of a cent or a bit more than that respectively banking and energy stocks were among the main
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decline as in russia notably lukoil was down one point eight percent the company is planning to burst moving one billion dollars in the oil rich tribe's tito field in siberia the same time our current chemical group is up one point nine percent is record numbers five percent increase in production for the year twenty eleven investment strategist alex on the critical wraps up today's for. early start with the beat yesterday's close by. the red numbers a little bit here huge volumes are pretty low and today people have no conviction therefore the direction of the market. kevin is next with the headlines and i'll be back in fifty five minutes side up.
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hello there eight thirty pm choose the night here in moscow you watch reality and these are all top stories for you fresh rhymes of violent attacks in libya as gadhafi loyalists retake one of the former strongholds of bani walid supporters of the old and new regimes are clashed in several said. these across the country. gulf states would drop service from syria as the troubled country rejects not a brokered peace plan calling for president assad to go retire and the e.u. slaps more sanctions on damascus. and india reportedly finds
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a way to buy iran's oil despite the e.u. a bargain was it set to pay you for black gold with the yellow card. next as promised an in-depth look into the an ongoing strife in the arab world in a few possible solutions to maybe to sophie shevardnadze speaks to russia's main envoy to africa because of. the. chairman of the foreign affairs committee of russia's federation calls and also presidential envoy to africa it's great to have you with us thank you for having me here so we start from the latest news in libya in the country has been swept with violent protests and government crises you as an expert what is your version what's going on is has nato led to lock in.

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